Cold War Movies, Movies about Cold War

Here we've displayed a list of the best Cold War films : Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(1964), The Fog of War(2003), Fail-Safe(1964), The Imitation Game(2014), The Manchurian Candidate(1962), Seven Days in May(1964), The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951), The Spy Who Came in From the Cold(1966), Cold War(2018), Lord of War(2005), Bridge of Spies(2015), Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey(1994) ... ...

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Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

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The Fog of War

The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.

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Fail-Safe

A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?

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The Imitation Game

During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.

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The Manchurian Candidate

A former prisoner of war is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

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Seven Days in May

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.

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The Day the Earth Stood Still

An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Instead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.

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Cold War

In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.

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Lord of War

An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an INTERPOL Agent.

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Bridge of Spies

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

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Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

A documentary about the inventor of the first electronic synthesiser instrument and his subsequent life after he was abducted by the KGB as well as a history of his instrument.

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This Ain't California

This Ain't California is a celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary documentary trip into the world of roller boarding in the German Democratic Republic. A coming-of-age tale of ... See full summary »

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The Bedford Incident

An American destroyer Captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters. Perhaps too determined.

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From Russia With Love

James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

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Free to Rock

FREE TO ROCK is a 60 minute documentary film directed by 4 time Emmy winning filmmaker Jim Brown and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. Ten years in the making, the film explores the soft power... See full summary »

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The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.

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The Tunnel

It's 1922; somewhere in Australia. When a Native Australian man is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men (The Fanatic, The Follower and The Veteran) are given the mission of ... See full summary »

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Hopscotch

Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.

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Escape From New York

In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.

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Colossus: The Forbin Project

Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.

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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

Without hostile intent, a Soviet submarine runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.

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Missile

Follows the 4315th Training Squadron of the Strategic Air Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where Air Force officers are trained to man the Launch Control Centers for the ... See full summary »

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Pork Chop Hill

During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.

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The Shoes of the Fisherman

After spending decades in a Siberian Gulag labor camp, Roman Catholic priest Kiril Lakota is set free by Russian leader Piotr Ilyich Kamenev at the height of the Cold War

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Charlie Wilson's War

A drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.

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Pawn Sacrifice

Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.

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Matinee

A small-time film promoter releases a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Diplomatic Courier

Cold War yarn about a US State Department courier who tangles with Soviet agents and seductive women in post WW2 Europe.

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